Residencies & Experiments

For Performa 15, the Performa Institute has invited a number of artists and collectives to serve as residents at the Performa Hub. Their experimental and processed-driven residencies explore the dimensions and possibilities of performance, oftentimes transforming the space into a responsive setting that molds itself to the unique needs of each project.

Jonathas de Andrade’s work reimagines UNESCO’s 1952 report “Race and Class in Rural Brazil” within New York City, creating an ethnographic experiment where the audience participates as viewers and subjects.

Jonathas de Andrade in residence at the Performa Hub. His ongoing project reimagines UNESCO’s 1952 report “Race and Class in Rural Brazil” within New York City, creating an ethnographic experiment where the audience participates as viewers and subjects.

South African collective Chimurenga presents a multi-tiered programming platform in the Performa 15 Hub, hosting a library-of-people through a broad spectrum of collaborators to create improvised bodies of knowledge.

Australian artist collective Wrong Solo (Agatha Gothe-Snape, Brian Fuata, and Shane Haseman) presents a self-reflexive three-part performance that speculates on the contemporary art world, developed in residence at the Performa Hub.